2026 Ronald A. Kleinknecht: Psychology Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Psychology	33	10469	5498	72	5440

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D-Index

World Ranking

National Ranking

Publications

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Psychology

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5498

5440

Overview

Ronald A. Kleinknecht is affiliated with Western Washington University in the United States. Their academic work is connected to this institution, where they contribute to the scholarly community.

No specific recent papers authored by Ronald A. Kleinknecht have been listed, and there are no records of frequent co-authors or common publication venues associated with their work.

There is no available information regarding book publications linked to this researcher, nor are there detailed records of main fields of study, subfields, or main research topics.

No awards have been recorded for Ronald A. Kleinknecht. The researcher is currently living according to the available data.

Best Publications

Origins and Characteristics of Fear of Dentistry

Ronald A. Kleinknecht;Robert K. Klepac;Leib D. Alexander

1009
Citations
Cultural factors in social anxiety: a comparison of social phobia symptoms and Taijin kyofusho.

Ronald A. Kleinknecht;Dale L. Dinnel;Erica E. Kleinknecht;Natsuki Hiruma

381
Citations
The assessment of dental fear

Ronald A. Kleinknecht;Douglas A. Bernstein

337
Citations
Factor analysis of the dental fear survey with cross-validation

Ronald A. Kleinknecht;Robert M. Thorndike;F. Dudley McGlynn;Jill Harkavy

296
Citations
Disgust sensitivity and contamination fears in spider and blood-injection-injury phobias.

Craig N Sawchuk;Jeffrey M Lohr;David F Tolin;Thomas C Lee

241
Citations
Neuropsychological deficits associated with alcoholism. A review and discussion

Ronald A. Kleinknecht;Steven G. Goldstein

222
Citations
A review of the effects of diazepam on cognitive and psychomotor performance.

Ronald A. Kleinknecht;David Donaldson

185
Citations
Antecedents of dental fear.

Douglas A. Bernstein;Ronald A. Kleinknecht;Leib D. Alexander

185
Citations
Blood/injury fear, fainting and avoidance of medically-related situations: a family correspondence study.

Ronald A. Kleinknecht;Joseph Lenz

162
Citations
The role of pain anxiety, coping, and pain self-efficacy in rheumatoid arthritis patient functioning.

Carolyn Strahl;Ronald A Kleinknecht;Dale L Dinnel

161
Citations
A Cross-Cultural Comparison of Social Phobia Symptoms

Dale L. Dinnel;Ronald A. Kleinknecht;Junko Tanaka-Matsumi

145
Citations
Factorial dimensions and correlates of blood, injury, injection and related medical fears : Cross validation of the Medical Fear Survey

Ronald A. Kleinknecht;Robert M. Thorndike;Marilyn M. Walls

129
Citations
Panic and panic attacks in adolescents

Jennifer Lee Macaulay;Ronald A. Kleinknecht

123
Citations
An evaluation of the McGill pain questionnaire for use in dental pain assessment

Janice van Buren;Ronald A. Kleinknecht

115
Citations
Multiple approaches to the reduction of dental fear.

Douglas A. Bernstein;Ronald A. Kleinknecht

114
Citations
The role of disgust and fear in blood and injection-related fainting symptoms : A structural equation model

Ronald A. Kleinknecht;Erica E. Kleinknecht;Robert M. Thorndike

112
Citations
A methodological critique of the current status of eye movement desensitization (EMD).

Jeffrey M. Lohr;Ronald A. Kleinknecht;Althea T. Conley;Steven Dal Cerro

111
Citations
The empirical status of the clinical application of eye movement desensitization and reprocessing

Jeffrey M. Lohr;Ronald A. Kleinknecht;David F. Tolin;Richard H. Barrett

111
Citations
Acquisition of blood, injury, and needle fears and phobias.

Ronald A. Kleinknecht

110
Citations
Treatment of posttraumatic stress disorder with eye movement desensitization

Ronald A. Kleinknecht;Mark P. Morgan

81
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Jeffrey M. Lohr University of Arkansas at Fayetteville

Edna B. Foa University of Pennsylvania

John F. Knutson University of Iowa

Richard J. McNally Harvard University

Dean McKay Fordham University

Richard A. Bryant University of New South Wales

Grant James Devilly Griffith University

Bunmi O. Olatunji Vanderbilt University

Scott O. Lilienfeld Emory University

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